PM says Jihadists will face a two year ban from returning to the UK “British jihadists who fight for Isil in Syria and Iraq will be barred from returning to this country for at least two years to prevent terror attacks, David Cameron has announced. The Prime Minister has unveiled a raft of new anti-terror […]
It’s official: Miliband is the most unpopular party leader ever… “The poll showed his personal ratings have collapsed to the lowest level for anyone running to be prime minister for 40 years. Most worryingly for Labour, the poll also put the Tories three percentage points ahead – their biggest lead for four years. Labour was on […]
Hancock takes up ConHome Manifesto proposal for a Sovereign Wealth Fund ‘Fracking for shale gas could prompt a gold rush that will turn northern towns like Blackpool into British equivalents of oil-rich communities in the Middle East, a Cabinet minister has claimed. Business and energy minister Matthew Hancock revealed that the Government is preparing to […]
Cameron forced to vote in white tie in EAW chaos ‘In extraordinary remarks for a Speaker, Mr Bercow accused ministers of breaking their promises for a full debate and vote on the warrant in a ‘sorry saga’ that would leave the public ‘contemptuous’. Mr Cameron came within nine votes of losing the support of the […]
Cameron ditches green strategy in “roads revolution” “David Cameron will put a multibillion-pound ‘roads revolution’ at the heart of the next election, to ease traffic jams and help the Tories win marginal seats. In a speech today the prime minister is due to pledge hundreds of miles of extra lanes on some of the busiest […]
May: We need the European Arrest Warrant “The Arrest Warrant – and the 34 other measures the Government proposes we opt back into – are practical measures that are necessary to protect us from serious criminals and terrorists. If we want to stop foreign criminals from coming to Britain, deal with European fighters coming back […]
Osborne 1) Accusations of “smoke and mirrors” as Chancellor claims to have halved Brussels bill “George Osborne last night claimed a qualified victory over the European Union as he declared Britain will only have to pay half of its controversial £1.7billion budget surcharge. But the Chancellor faced an immediate backlash from critics who said he was […]
Treason and Plot! 1) Guy Fawkes Night conspiracy as Labour MPs from the North-West mull regicide… “According to one person there, Lindsay Hoyle, Labour MP for Chorley and a deputy speaker of the Commons, told his colleagues they should concentrate not on targeting new seats but simply defending their own position. “He said it was […]
New Statesman attack on Miliband 1) “He and Labour seem trapped..” “At present, he and Labour seem trapped. His MPs sense it and the polls reflect it. Ukip is attracting support in the party’s old working-class northern English heartlands and winning converts in key Home Counties swing seats that Labour would once have hoped to […]
Mobile warfare 1) Javid threatens to force networks to eliminate ‘notspots’ ‘Ministers will today go to war with mobile phone giants over the problem of signal blackspots which affect a fifth of the country. Culture Secretary Sajid Javid has lost patience with companies’ efforts to eliminate poor signals that leave millions of us unable to […]
May Day 1) Baker quits as Home Office Minister “Norman Baker, the crime prevention minister, is stepping down after a year of internal battles within the Home Office with his Conservative boss. In a scathing verdict on Ms May’s leadership, Mr Baker warned that support for “rational evidence-based policy” was in short supply at the […]
Cameron urged to block all benefits for migrants “Migrants from the European Union would no longer have their wages subsidised through tax credits, under plans being considered in Downing Street. No 10 is examining a further migrant benefit clampdown after a furious Angela Merkel forced a retreat on the imposition of quotas on EU arrivals. […]
Labour chaos 1) This is what a blunder looks like: workers who make Miliband feminist t-shirt paid 62p an hour ‘They are the T-shirts designed to make a political statement about women’s rights – but the female workers making them are paid just 62p an hour in an Indian Ocean ‘sweatshop’. Between shifts women making […]
Grayling to scrap police cautions “The government is planning to scrap the use of police cautions – where those who commit minor offences are given a formal warning – in England and Wales….Under the new system, offenders would make good damage they have done or pay compensation for less serious crimes. Those who commit more […]
Labour collapse in Scotland ‘Labour faces near wipeout in Scotland next May in a setback that could cost Ed Miliband the general election, according to a new poll for The Times. Mr Miliband’s personal ratings have also plunged since the referendum seven weeks ago, the YouGov poll of Scottish voters has found…The poll suggests that […]